"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan." Galeazzo Ciano

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” J.M. Power

"One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” German Proverb

“Just because you’ve only got houseplants doesn’t mean you don’t have the gardening spirit — I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.” Sara Moss-Wolfe

“Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” Oscar de la Renta

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” William Shakespeare

“Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about.” Author Unknown

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles W. Eliot

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” Elbert Hubbard

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” Ben Williams

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” Charles Richards

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward

“You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” Stephen King

“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” Bonnie Friedman

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” Barbara De Angelis

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” George Burns

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” Alice Walker

"Aim for service and success will follow." Albert Schweitzer

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” Havelock Ellis

“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” David Orr

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” Robert Louis Stevenson

"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell." Lance Armstrong